Troops. First, the president is issuing an executive order authorizing additional sanctions against any individual owning, operating, trading with or assisting sectors of the iranian economy including construction, manufacturing, textiles, and mining. Primary ande both secondary sanctions. The eo also allows us to designate other sectors in the as secretary pompeo and me think is appropriate. 17ond, we are announcing specific sanctions against irans largest steel and iron a vesselrers and involved in the transfer of products. As a result of these actions, we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the Iranian Regime , and we will continue our enforcement of other entities. Third, we are taking action against h Senior Iranian officials who advance eight Senior Iranian officials advancing destabilization and who were involved in the strike. Secretary pompeo will comment more on this. Today sanctions are part of our commitment to stop the rain in regimes global terrorist activities. Globalian regimes terrorist activities. The president has been clear. We will continue to apply sanctions until iran stops terrorist activities and commits that it will never have nuclear weapons. I will now turn it over to secretary pompeo. Sec. Pompeo thank you, stephen. Good morning, everyone. Today, President Trump is delivering on the pledge he made the day after iran attacked American Forces in iraq. There will be a series of sanctions that secretary mnuchin just mentioned. Eight senior officials responsible for violence at home and rebought. We are striking at the heart of the islamic republics and abroad. We are striking at the heart of the islamic republics security apparatus. Squad in thebrute last few months has killed approximately 1500 iranians who are simply demanding freedom. We have targeted leaders close to the ayatollah who carried out his terrorist plots in the middle east and around the world. They have deployed soldiers across the regions battlefields, trained militias in iraq, syria, and elsewhere in the arts of domestic repression. Today, they are accountable for murder and mayhem. The goal of our campaign is to deny the regime resources to conduct destructive foreign policy. Like a iran to behave normal nation. We believe the sanctions we impose today further that strategic objective. Is composed of diplomatic and economic components that deny the regime of billions of dollars in revenue it has used to fuel destruction across the middle east and across the world. Sadly, the Previous Administration opened up Revenue Streams for iran. 90 cannot access roughly of its foreign currency reserves. Not even two weeks ago, the thatdent of iran admitted our sanctions have cost iran over 200 billion dollars in income investments. Finally, i want to reiterate President Trumps concern for dual National Citizens inside iraq. We will do all we can to get each of them returned home safely to their families. With that, we will take just a few questions. Secretary, the administration said the strike was done because of an imminent threat. But you said you did not know exactly when or where. That is not the definition of imminent. The president also said there were concerns about attacks on embassies. Can you clarify if you had specific information about an imminent threat and if it had anything to do with our embassies . X we had specific information had specifico we information on an imminent threat that had to do with our embassies. Were you mistaken when you said you did not know precisely when or where . Sec. Pompeo no, those are completely consistent thoughts. We do not know exactly which minute or day it would have been executed, but we know that he was plotting a largescale attack against american interests. Against american embassies . Sec. Pompeo against american facilities throughout the region. Secretary, in the initial hours after the missile attacks on alassad airfield, it was believed iran may have taken steps to avoid u. S. Casualties. But then mark miller came out and the secretary of defense came out and other officials came out and said these missiles were intended to kill americans. If it was irans intent to kill americans, does that not deserve some sort of response . If somebody takes a shot at you and they dont hit you because you duck, does that mean they werent trying to kill you . Sec. Pompeo there is no doubt in my judgment as i observed the iranian activity in the region that night that they had the full intention of killing u. S. Forces, whether that was our military folks or diplomatic folks in the region. I am confident the response the president has taken was appropriate. The president has said we dont want war. We want iran to behave like a normal nation. This is part of our strategic effort to get iran to behave in a way that does not continue their 40 year long effort to terrorize the world. Mr. Secretary, secretary pompeo, do you believe iranians shot down the airplane, and if they shot the plane down, will there be consequences . Sec. Pompeo we believe it is likely that plane was shot down by an iranian missile. We will let the investigation a final before we make determination. I have been on the phone with president zelensky. I was on the phone with my canadian counterpart. They are working to get their resources on the ground. We will learn more about what happened to that aircraft. When we get the results of the investigation, i am confident we and the world will take appropriate action in response. The treasury will issue waivers for anybody, whether it is americans or others, who can help facilitate the investigation. In september, you are announcing additional sanctions and secretary mnuchin, at that point you said i think we have done more sanctions on iran than anybody and it is absolutely working. Since then, you have seen an escalation in violence. How are economic sanctions keeping the United States and the United States interest more secure . Have 100 in we confidence and are consistent in our view that the economic sanctions are working. If we did not have these sanctions in place, iran would have tens of billions of dollars. They would be using that for terrorist activities throughout the region to enable them to do more bad things. There is no question that by cutting off the economics to the , we are having an impact. As the president has said, the fact that the Obama Administration turned over 150 billion to the regime, we would not be in the situation where that not the case. Its important to keep in mind what is taking place in iran today. This country has never been in the place it is in today. Their budget, they are going to fail by tens of billions of dollars achieving revenue this year. They have real challenges and are having to make difficult decisions. Do you underwrite has blocked, hamas, shieh coalitions he a coalitions in iraq hezbollah, hamas, the shieh in iraq. Your country . This administration will continue to support those efforts. Secondarytioned sanctions. What is your message to our european allies who continue to do business with iran . Will this impact the barter ofhanism set up by a number European Countries to avoid u. S. Sanctions . Sec. Mnuchin those are important questions. Let me first comment, i dont believe there have been any transactions. We are working on a swiss channel we have them approved that will continue to allow humanitarian transactions. Subjectl most likely be to secondary sanctions depending on how they use that. That is absolutely the case. As it relates to the europeans, both the secretary and i have spoken to our counterparts in europe over the last couple of days. ,e have emphasized the impact and i has announced they are no longer part of that. We have had direct conversations with our counterparts about that. Secretary pompeo, what is your definition of imminent . To. Pompeo this was going happen. American lives were at risk, and we would have been culpably negligent had we not recommended to the president that he take this action. He made the right call and america is safer as a result of that. [inaudible] sec. Mnuchin i dont mean to cut you off, but we are trying to ago, thesix months president said u. S. Intelligence agencies had been running amok. Of his spent most three years in office denigrating and attacking the Intelligence Community and disputing whether its findings on russia, north korea, or any area that contradicts him were correct. Why then should americans suddenly believe your assertions that you have good intelligence when the head of the executive branch has been casting aspersions on the Intelligence Community for most of his time in office . Sec. Pompeo i served as cia director for the first year and a half of this administration. I watched what the subcommittee did for the entire time i served. They are capable men and women who are delivering exquisite information to the executive branch. The president should have confidence in that information. We all challenge their work. We have to make sure we get it right. The Intelligence Community is not flawless. We get it wrong. In this case, the Intelligence Community got it fundamentally right. Actions they took after the attack have demonstrated we were quite right. There was an imminent attack and we took an action we thought was likely to create less risk for the American People and i am confident that we did that. Pompeo, thetary Prime Minister has asked you to start negotiating withdrawing u. S. Troops from iraq immediately. Can you comment on that . Sec. Pompeo he did not characterize the conversation correctly, but to the larger, more important point, we are happy to continue the conversation with iraqis about what the right structure is . Our mission is clear. We are performing a Training Mission to help iraqi forces to be successful and to continue the campaign against isis. We are going to continue that mission. As times change and we get to a place where we can deliver what i believe and the president believes is the right structure with fewer resources dedicated to that mission, we will do so. Nato teamve today a at the state Department Working that we can plan so continue the Important Mission to protect and defend, keep the American People safe, while reducing our cost, resources, burden, and risk to our soldiers in the region. You said the imminent threat was a threat to the u. S. Embassy and you did not know precisely when or where. Last night, the president said it was two embassies including our baghdad embassy. Why did you say that and the president said it in toledo, but nobody set it to lawmakers behind closed doors . Did. Pompeo we we told them about the imminent threat in all of the intelligence we provided in the classified setting. Clear, you told them embassies were to be targeted, that was the imminent threat. Sec. Pompeo i am not going to share details about a classified briefing, but lawmakers can see that same intelligence and it will reflect what i described and what the president said last night. The threat is never gone. There is always a lot of danger in the world throughout the region. Nobody believes that a Single Mission in any respect took down the risk of terror from al qaeda, isis. No one believes that. The president doesnt. But look at the achievements of the administration. We took away the caliphates in its entirety. A list that has reduced the capacity for terrorists around the world to put the homeland at risk. We are proud of what we accomplished. We are going to stay the course. About the trade deal, the chinese side is going to be here next wednesday. China is a big importer of iranian oil, iranian minerals, and that is a big part of their economy as well. Are you concerned about that coming up in the signing of the phase i deal or in negotiations for the phase two deal . Sec. Mnuchin thats a good question to and on. Let me first say that we are looking forward to the chinese delegation coming next week. Phase one is very significant. It includes very significant components of changes to technology issues, intellectual property issues, and 50 billion in purchases for our farmers. I dont agree with your comments that china is a buyer of oil. The Chinese State companies are not buying oil from iran. We will have that conversation with china as well as any other counterparty. Thank you very much. Thanks, everybody. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up saturday morning, George Mason University law professor discusses Cyber Threats against the u. S. Government and private sector targets. An editor of the economist will be on to talk about their annual issue looking at what is to come in 2020. E sure to watch washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At the end of this weeks house session, steve scaliseand steny hoyer talked about next weeks agenda and limiting military action against iran and whats ahead for impeachment. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition . Mr. Scalise i rise to ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for the purpose of inquiring the schedule to the majority leader. Without objection. Mr. Scalise i ask unanimous consent to revise and stepped my remarks. I would be happy to yield to the gentleman from maryland, the majority leader. Mr. Hoyer mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today it meet on monday next when it shall convone at noon for morning hour debate and 2 00 p. M. For legislative business. On monday, the house will meet at 12 p. M. For morning